Public Input for Rules
Notices are published each Wednesday to alert the public regarding state agency rulemaking. You may obtain a copy of any rule by notifying the agency contact person. You may also comment on the rule, and/or attend the public hearing. If no hearing is scheduled, you may request one - the agency may then schedule a hearing, and must do so if 5 or more persons request it. If you are disabled or need special services to attend a hearing, please notify the agency contact person at least 7 days prior to it. Petitions: you can petition an agency to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule; the agency must provide you with petition forms, and must respond to your petition within 60 days. The agency must enter rulemaking if the petition is signed by 150 or more registered voters, and may begin rulemaking if there are fewer. You can also petition the Legislature to review a rule; the Executive Director of the Legislative Council (115 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333, phone (207) 287-1615) will provide you with the necessary petition forms. The appropriate legislative committee will review a rule upon receipt of a petition from 100 or more registered voters, or from "...any person who may be directly, substantially and adversely affected by the application of a rule..." (Title 5 §11112). WorldWide Web: Copies of the weekly notices and the full texts of adopted rule chapters may be found on the internet at: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules. There is also a list of rule-making liaisons (http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/liaisons.html), who are single points of contact for each agency.
PROPOSALS
AGENCY: 01-001 - Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 271, Gypsy Moth Quarantine
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2019-P006
BRIEF SUMMARY: This proposed rule establishes a state quarantine against the gypsy moth to prevent its movement from all counties except parts of Aroostook, Piscataquis and Somerset Counties to other parts of the State, to protect Maine's forest and landscape tree resources. The Gypsy moth is federally regulated and this rule fulfills the requirement that Maine must have a similar state quarantine in place because the state is partially regulated for gypsy moth.
PUBLIC HEARING: February 11, 2019 - 6:30 p.m., Maine Forest Service Regional Office, 45 Radar Road, Ashland, Maine 04732
COMMENT DEADLINE: February 25, 2019
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING / SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT INFORMATION: Gary Fish, Maine DACF, Horticulture Program, 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028. Telephone: (207) 287-7545. Fax: 287-7548. Email: Gary.Fish@Maine.gov .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: None
AGENCY: 01-001 - Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 275, Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2019-P007
BRIEF SUMMARY: This proposed rule establishes a state quarantine against the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) to prevent its movement in firewood, ash logs, ash wood products or ash nursery stock from northern Aroostook and York Counties, to protect Maine's forest and landscape tree resources. The emerald ash borer is federally regulated and this rule fulfills the requirement that Maine must have a similar state quarantine in place because the state is partially regulated for emerald ash borer.
PUBLIC HEARING: February 11, 2019 - 6:30 p.m., Maine Forest Service Regional Office, 45 Radar Road, Ashland, Maine 04732; and February 13, 2019 - 6:30 p.m., 15 Oak Street, Springvale, Maine 04083
COMMENT DEADLINE: Midnight, February 25, 2019
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING / SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT INFORMATION: Gary Fish, Maine DACF, Horticulture Program, 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028. Telephone: (207) 287-7545. Fax: 287-7548. Email: Gary.Fish@Maine.gov .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: None
ADOPTIONS
Pursuant to Ch. 380 of the Public Laws of 2011, notice of the adoption of rules will no longer be published in the newspaper rulemaking notices; our Wednesday web notices will continue to carry them, however. Information on rules adopted through the Maine Administrative Procedure Act as well as the full text of adopted rules is available on the internet at http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules .